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The General: Godfather of Crime

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I purchased this book on my trip to ireland this summer, it was in a small dublin bookstore. I read it once, while in dublin, going to see all of the places mentioned in it, and once again back here in DC. It was a facinating in depth look at the "life and crimes" of Martin Cahill. As a former FBI agent and NYPD officer i remembered reading Garda and Interpol reports on Cahill, at the time I knew things that the public did not. Those things are now in Williams amazing biography of one of the first modern irish crimnals. It is well worth the $12.00 price or as i paid 6.99 punts.

This book details the life and time of one of Dublins most feared gansters - from his early beginings as a house burgular, thru' to the Beit Paintings theft and his ultimate murder by the IRA, Paul Williams gives a detailed account of this mans life.

This book not only told the incredible story of the most unlikely master criminal, Martin Cahill, it also depicted the underbelly of Dublin as I had never seen represented before.

Not for Maeve Binchey readers, this shows a side of Ireland not usually represented in popular Irish fiction.